Word: toscaninis
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...years have been organized with the same flair and genius for detail. A onetime aspiring singer, Carrara abandoned his career when his money ran out, now works during the day as a salesman, has been claquing evenings for ten years. Alabisio was a top La Scala tenor under Toscanini in the 1920s. Their basic claque (which they can beef up to 40 on important evenings) includes singing students, teachers, music lovers and two barbers. Perhaps the most dedicated is Claqueur Nino Grassi, 60, who has clapped professionally at La Scala since he was ten years old. Carrara and Alabisio attend...
...Arturo Toscanini's LP recording of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony has sold 600,000, but the only real rivals to Cliburn-Tchaikovsky are preserved on old-fashioned shellac. Among the million-selling 78s: Jalousie, performed by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, Pianist Jose Iturbi in Chopin's Polonaise in A-flat and Debussy's Clair de Lune, Leopold Stokowski's recording of Tales from the Vienna Woods...
...year (1940-54) "professional honeymoon" as New York Herald Tribune music critic, Thomson campaigned for the performance of modern works and unfamiliar ancient ones, carped at the heavy concert ration of German, Italian and Slavic music, and set about with gusto to deflate what he thought were undeserved reputations. Toscanini he criticized as a practitioner of the "Wow Technique," by which he meant "the theatrical technique of whipping up something in a way to provoke applause automatically." Strauss's Salome, he wrote, was "like modernistic sculpture made of cheap wood, glass, rocks, cinders, papier-mâché, sandpaper...
...Symphony Orchestra toured the country without a conductor after Toscanini's death. Mr. Schenck, who must see himself as a William Dobbin, should not accord the departed Joel Lazar the same rites. The Bach Society Orchestra this year stands in considerable need of a conductor, and one who will be both meticulous and despotic...
Evidently the whims of interpreters have been mirrored in the printed scores, and Toscanini's lifelong struggle for accurate texts, now supported by Stravinsky, Walter, Serafin, Monteux, Gui and many others, will be much advanced not only by your article but by the response of your readers...